Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] only the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dark shapes of Mario 's men ducked one by one into the saloon leaving only the man on the rod , the mastman , and Gomez . |
| 2 | The roof reflects only the sun in the hot red paint . |
| 3 | He has triumphed by attacking a system that sucks the marrow from the body of the industry to leave only the flab and gristle of tired ideas . |
| 4 | The drawing shows only the enclosing boxes for the comprising assemblies and parts in the highest , " machine " , level of the hierarchical structure . |
| 5 | The by-election swing from Conservative to Labour of 21 per cent was the largest such since 1935 , and the result represented only the 13th Labour by-election gain from the Conservatives since 1945 ( the most recent being the Vale of Glamorgan in May 1989 — see p. 36740 ) . |
| 6 | The misinformation concerns only the route Déj ‘ a Vu and has nothing at all to do with Prodigal Sons . |
| 7 | Richard Littlejohn of The Sun became only the second winner of the Irritant of the Year award since Private Eye won in 1968 . |
| 8 | It is effective chiefly in defence , since in delivering it the karateka presents only the side of his body to his opponent , thereby protecting all his vital areas . |
| 9 | Almost everyone who solves the cube does only the constructive theory . |
| 10 | Setting up the tool requires only the two spanners provided as standard accessories . |
| 11 | The clash marked only the second occasion in 70 years on which police had opened fire on a white crowd . |
| 12 | Subsequent reports on Oct. 1 said that the head of the UN-IAEA commission on Iraq [ see pp. 38165 ; 38211 ] , Rolf Ekeus , had " firmly instructed " the team to brief only the commission or the IAEA , after it emerged that Kay had passed information directly to the US administration while held in Baghdad . |
| 13 | In the strictest sense of the word Iceland is not a ‘ Arctic ’ country ; the Circle nicks only the northern tip of the isle of Grimsey and so leaves the main island in a sub-Arctic no man 's land . |
| 14 | Since we do not expect the front-end to recognize only the correct phonemes we also look at less informative representations . |
| 15 | They are also " easy " to imitate in form though possibly not in use : one requires the omission of past tense morphology ( run not ran , look not looked ) , the other requires only the insertion of the word did which already exists in LE . |
| 16 | He concludes that the event demonstrates only the ‘ growing pains of a young republic ’ which ‘ after 5000 years of conquerors … looks forward to a prosperous and peaceful future . ’ |
| 17 | During the storm there were moments of joy and light ; the aftermath contained only the sickness . |
| 18 | On May 9 the Council ruled the term " Corsican people " unconstitutional on the grounds that the Constitution recognized only the " French people comprising all French citizens without distinction as to their origin , race or religion " . |
| 19 | The fundamental principle … of our law is that the Jury has only the function of determining the question of guilt or innocence , and is relieved of any responsibility for the subsequent penalty . |
| 20 | To harmonise a scale ( ie. build the chords that are contained in a particular key ) , we stack up thirds on each degree of the scale using only the notes found in that particular key . |
| 21 | The Bakufu 's position was fatally flawed by its having little economic or political status as a national government : it wielded political power as proxy for the emperor using only the income from its own lands . |
| 22 | But Dr Mackie said the report showed only the ‘ tip of the iceberg ’ as many incidents went unreported . |
| 23 | The form requires only the Table Number for photocomposition to be specified . |
| 24 | The film covers only the first two-thirds of the book but is dramatically more satisfying because it is the story of Tom Joad 's political awakening . |
| 25 | The order allowed only the Media Citizens Quick Count , a private organization accredited by Comelec , to tabulate unofficial early returns . |
| 26 | The connection was of particular significance when the site for the new Welshpool station was under consideration because the Company owned only the trackbed at Raven Square and is indebted to Powis Estates for providing the site for the station and car park . |
| 27 | Up to that moment the master has only the right to possess . |
| 28 | Hard cheeses are more fatty , the whey having been pressed out of the cheese to leave only the fatty curds . |
| 29 | For , suppose an attempt is made to reconstruct the geometry of the Earth using only the information available in the index of an atlas . |
| 30 | The principle does not , however , apply if the sanction involves only the institution of legal proceedings for the recovery of the money and penalties . |